Continuous Sciatic Nerve Block vs Epidural Analgesia in Lower Limb Amputation for Postoperative Pain
Unknown statusPhase 3NCT05608733
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Controlled clinical trial of two parallel groups, with random assignment 1:1, non-inferiority, blinded for the patient, for who administers the intervention and for who analyzes the data. 112 participants
Study details
- Official title
- Continuous Sciatic Nerve Block vs Epidural Analgesia in Lower Limb Amputation for Prevention of Acute Postoperative Pain and Phantom Limb Pain: A Triple-blind Randomized Controlled Non-inferiority Clinical Trial.
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Drug: Epidural catheter
- Drug: Continuous sciatic nerve block
- Sponsor
- Universidad de Antioquia
- Start date
- 2022-12
- Primary completion
- 2025-05
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Colombia
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age over 18 years 2. Being scheduled for above or below knee amputation or for bone remodeling of lower limb amputees 3. Acceptance of continuous regional analgesic technique as part of their multimodal analgesia Exclusion Criteria: 1. Traumatic cause of amputation 2. Allergy to local anesthetics 3. Contraindication for epidural technique or continuous blocks 4. Stage 5 kidney disease 5. Concomitant use of aspirin and clopidogrel 6. Pregnancy status
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05608733